Improvement in horseshoes



E.M.URRA1NE.

HORSESH-OE.

No 178,871. Patented June 20,1876.

MFHERS. PHOTOLITHOGRAPHEH. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo q EDWARD MURRAINE, 0E RooEELLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,871, dated J une 20, 1876; application tiled March 29, 1876.

To all whom it may concern;

Beit known that I, EDWARD MURRAINE,

Y of Rochelle,'in the county ot Ogle and State horseshoe embodying my invention, showingthe manner ot' securing it to the hoof ot the horse. Fig. 2 represents a general plan or top view or the same detached, and Fig. 3

represents a side elevation of the clasp employed in securing the shoe to the hoot'.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.'

The object of my-invention is to provide a means of securing the shoe to the hoof of the horse without the use of nails, whereby the same may be readily attached or removed at will; and my invention consists in the combination, with the shoe provided with pointed pins adapted to enter the lower surface of the hoof, ot' a clasp adjusted to encircle the front portion of the hoot' and secured to the shoe by screw-bolts, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, A represents the shoe, which is made in the usual shape and provided on its upper surface with a series of pointed pins, a, adapted to enter the lower surface 'of the hoof, as shown by dotted lines in Fig.

1. G is a 'wrought-metal clasp, curved in proper shape to iit around the front portion ot' the hoof, as shown at D. One end ot'` this clasp is made'round and screw-threaded eX- ternally, as shown at d, Fig. 3, by which means it is connected to the shoe by being screwed into an' aperture formed therein, at a point about midway between the toe andthe heel, and at the opposite end with an eye, c, adapted to receive a screw-bolt, f, passing upward through the shoe, as shown in Fig. l. The arrangement of this clasp and its mode of attachment to the shoe are such as to hold the shoe tirmly to the hoot' by tightening the bolt f,r or`, by unscrewing the bolt, allow the shoe to be readily removed.

rlhe shoe proper may be made of wroughtA or malleable iron, as may be preferred, and the toe and heel calks of steel, formed in such shape as to admit of being riveted to the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent', is-

The combination, with a horseshoe provided with pointed pins, adapted toenter the lower surface ot the hoof, of the clasp C, adjusted to encircle the front of the hoof, and secured at one end to the shoe, by being screwed therein, and at the other end by the bolt j', substantially as specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by nie this 21st day ot' March, 1876. EDWARD IVIURRAINE. .Witnesses:

N. C. GRIDLEY, p N. H. SHERBURNE. 

